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> What happens when the US decides that that shouldn't be happening anymore? Like the US did with Swiss banks? “…the standard of justice depends on the equal
by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> What happens when the US decides that that shouldn't be happening anymore?
Like the US did with Swiss banks?
“…the standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel and that in fact the strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.”
— Thucydides, 5.89 (trans. Rex Warner, Penguin Classics edition)
(half-remembered quote found using AI)
original source
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War/Book_5#Sixteenth_Year_of_the_War_-_The_Melian_Conference_-_Fate_of_Melos https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_...
Book 5, end of paragraph 89
- hunterpayne 1y agoThe US government in that case was requesting information on US citizens and not foreign nationals. I put in those last two words ("against foreigners") for a reason. If the UK government was trying to enforce UK law on UK citizens in the US, that's one thing. That's not what is happening with Ofcom, they want to enforce these laws against US citizens in US territory. That is a very blatant violation of US national sovereignty.